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One way to reduce your tax drag is to use more tax-efficient vehicles. By vehicle, we mean the format or type of product that you are using in your portfolio. For example, you can invest in the S&P 500 through several types of investment vehicles...

Tax-loss harvesting is one of the most well-known tax tactics for investors. It is the process of selling an investment that carries an unrealized loss. The loss realized by the investor can be used to offset realized gains elsewhere. Additionally, u...

As a business owner and entrepreneur, you are constantly being pulled in several different directions. You have a 401(k) plan in place as a robust benefit for your employees and rely on your Third Party Administrator (TPA) to help keep your plan comp...

Picture the future. What are your plans for 10 years from now? How about 5 years from now? One year? How certain are you that your plans will become a reality? Of course, the truth is we can and should plan, but we can never be certain of what the fu...

You may recall that the CARES Act says required minimum distributions (RMDs) don’t have to be taken in 2020 from IRAs and many employer retirement plans. This seems like a pretty simple concept, but it’s not. There were a number of unanswered questio...

The CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, allows employees affected by COVID-19 greater access to money set aside for them in employer retirement plans. As often happens, many details of this new law were not immediately clear. We found ourse...

Many companies offer 401(k) plans as a benefit to help attract and retain talented employees, but most business owners and CFOs do not look at 401(k) plans in relation to corporate profitability. The plans are treated as a necessary expense, a cost o...

The last person to be receiving a Civil War-era pension has died. Irene Triplett, of Wilkesboro, NC, died on May 31 at the age of 90 due to complications from having fallen a few days earlier, according to the Washington Post and other news outlets. ...

Qualified retirement plans have a number of weird rules. One of them is that sometimes one year doesn’t equal a year. For instance, under the traditional hours of service crediting method, an employee can earn a year of vesting service in as little a...

Buying low and selling high is easier said than done. Fear, greed, an inflated sense of forecasting and other biases constantly muddle the decisions of experts and novices alike. And yet, there’s a frequent scenario in which many investors adhere to ...